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Books Like A Beautiful Mind

by Sylvia Nasar · about this book

Loved A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar? If its nonfiction, memoir & biography and biography hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Spy and the Traitor, Marsha and Girl, Interrupted. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside A Beautiful Mind: Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Biography · Mathematics · Emotional

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   The Spy and the Traitor

   Ben Macintyre

   Biography · Cold War History · Memoir & Biography · Cold War Era · Nonfiction

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   Marsha

   Tourmaline

   Biography · Memoir & Biography · Mental Health Advocacy · Nonfiction · Emotional

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   Girl, Interrupted

   Susanna Kaysen

   Memoir & Biography · Mental Health Advocacy · Cold War Era · Nonfiction · Emotional

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   What My Bones Know

   Stephanie Foo

   Memoir & Biography · Mental Health Advocacy · Neuroscience · Nonfiction · Emotional

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5. 

   True

   Kostya Kennedy

   Biography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Emotional · Male Lead

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   Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

   Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig

   Biography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Economics · Dense Prose

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   A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

   S. Nassir Ghaemi

   Mental Health Advocacy · Biography · Neuroscience · Nonfiction

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8. 

   Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

   Adam Higginbotham

   Cold War History · Cold War Era · Nonfiction · Emotional · Dense Prose

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9. 

   The Complete Maus

   Art Spiegelman

   Biography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Emotional · Male Lead

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    Super Chill: A Year of Living Anxiously

    Adam Ellis

    Memoir & Biography · Mental Health Advocacy · Nonfiction · Emotional · Male Lead

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11. 

    Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

    Ashlee Vance

    Biography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Science Writing

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12. 

    The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

    Walter Isaacson

    Biography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Science Writing

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    Michael Jordan

    Roland Lazenby

    Biography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Dense Prose · Male Lead

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14. 

    Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story

    Debbie Tung

    Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Mental Health Advocacy · Emotional

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15. 

    Beyond the Wand

    Tom Felton

    Memoir & Biography · Mental Health Advocacy · Nonfiction · Emotional · Male Lead

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16. 

    Spare

    Prince Harry

    Memoir & Biography · Mental Health Advocacy · Nonfiction · Emotional · Male Lead

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17. 

    King Hancock

    Brooke Barbier

    Biography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Male Lead

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18. 

    Good Morning, Monster

    Catherine Gildiner

    Memoir & Biography · Mental Health Advocacy · Nonfiction · Emotional

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19. 

    This Is Me: A Reckoning

    Hayden Panettiere

    Memoir & Biography · Mental Health Advocacy · Nonfiction · Emotional

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    Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir

    Matthew Perry

    Memoir & Biography · Chronic Illness · Nonfiction · Emotional · Male Lead

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